they are going to want to. use the world really getting better and. their global $3000.00 special report. starts on this 19th on digital. this is g.w. news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes one year after the 1st case of the bowl it was reported the outbreak is intensifying more cases have been confirmed in the densely populated congolese city. prompting one debt to close its borders with the d r c. and the south african teenage is taking on gun violence will tune in to the radio show where people who've been affected by crime are finding their voice.

hello i'm christine wonderwall come to africa i'm glad you're tuned in a year off to a bowl of 1st broke in congo the spread of the disease of his unchecked almost 2000 people have died making this the 2nd worst outbreak on record one that closed its frontier with the democratic republic of congo off to a 3rd case of the deadly virus was to takes it in the border city of gold in north keevil that province has borne the brunt of the outbreak together with neighboring . but 15 people also in quarantine in south keevil which was previously unaffected the confirmed case is the baby daughter off a minor who traveled from the north of the d.r. sea to goa this is the 1st instance off direct transmission off ebola inside the city of more than 2000000 people. one year since the government of the democratic

republic of the congo declared an outbreak of ebola in north kivu province and yesterday in goma a minor working in the province of each area became the city's 2nd case of a bowl of surveillance at all points of entry and points of control in the area are being stepped up this latest case in such a dense population center underscores the very real risk of a spike in disease transmission perhaps beyond the country's border and the very urgent need for a strengthened global response and increased donor investment i'm joined now by the maximally and get an epidemiologist boyd is and the sherry tay hospital here welcome to the africa so we've heard the u.n. spokesperson calling for more controls the government briefly shut the border was that the right moves. yeah thank you christine for having me on this dramatic question and dramatic development that we see and those 2 days now actually.

the new 30 minutes ago that maybe the glow in the board is not closed but whatever the reality let me say. 2 things here i clearly understand the concerns in rwanda with having the threat demick now in this large urban setting directly on the border between congo and rwanda but. and i know this crossing point from his it's to last year with 40000 people crossing the border every day this is a situation that really but from my experience as an m.s.f. doctor and in west africa. we know that clues in regular. board approved always have the risk of forcing people into non-money toilets pathway i see i see and having said that that we'll have more information is being detected how great is the risk that you know this goes outside of the affected regions because you can connect to other parts of the continent through from goma.

excellent question i think. this border close the border situation shows very much how important it is to 1st of all to build up trust with the population to not take steps that make. the population even more boring to make them high the way this is exactly what it bono one ok the border wants to kill and spread in the darkness we have to eliminate this and we have to build a truck in the last in the last. epidemic in west africa affected 6 countries about 10000 people died what's different this time. this time we have much more support in the area that's true we have a vaccine which is. which is effective but they see that despite all of this possibilities the epidemic is going on and on and on that new spots. in those 312 months now we see that the population is not having this.

we read earlier this year that about a 3rd of the population is not really believing in the right have much more important issues apparently for them. and we have to build that distrust up so that they present to the health bill is all right that is. that if you demand it just from doctors without borders and the charity hospital and thank you. the city of goma is a major transport have and health with cars they are racing to find the people who had contacts with the links with the patients but the urban setting density off of population anonymity and high mobility make it fodder to isolate patients and trace contacts to rural areas the w.h.o. say the risk of regional spread is quote very high. my next guest is in the city off. and joins me on the line welcome to the africa salim what is

the situation in goma especially now more than that more cases have been confirmed where we have definitely seen a change in the behavior of the population when their 1st case was confirmed a couple of weeks ago and we always declare the emergency you know there was a little change in the behavior of the population people were seeing it as a case that was isolated i'm not linked to a major a b. then b. however in the past couple of days when the 2nd case was confirmed people are more aware of these and more health almost who have been starved least in the among them during or over the city with the growing water for washing their hands for these impacting also health workers taking the temperature of them over citizens and he has to they say been boats that connect goma this if your book of across the lake people were stopped at the ports. because there was a one suspected case of up asian in one of the of the boats so this was the 1st

time that the population so like a very evident way you know emergency could have picked their lives here asylum when the 1st case was confirmed health officials in goma said that they were preparing for the event that more cases would be confirmed what have you seen to that effect. well clearly the health posts have been there multiplying especially in border post sound of the courts of course but basically everywhere in restaurants or government buildings hotels here on the street the middle of the street if we were there also 2 main ebola treatment centers being set up by visited one of the central hospital in goma but there is another one being set up on the road that connects goma and this is your bottom but one of the centers of the epidemic so far salim of the border with russia has now been closed give us a sense of how that's going to affect people perhaps how it is already affecting people well there has been an update regarding that the border was closed that this

morning however just a couple of hours ago it was where you opened aid had there were has been we have been receiving very contradictory information but we know that there was an official communication and official notification from the under government to close the border and this was how this mission that the congolese government rejected because they always had that by not to close borders and not you know to reduce him travel travel restrictions you know to introduce travel restrictions among the wounded to countries these have very very busy border posts where thousands of people daily cross there as peacekeepers as migrants as traders that work in both bull work and live also in both sides of the border so to close the border you could actually have been see the next few days was definitely a pick the economy of the population here in goma. salim fired in the congolese city of goma thank you now to one young man who's doing something for young people personally affected by the crisis in the city of binny in the d.r.

seen joke of ways helping children to escape the trauma off day to day life living with the disease through really abating. sliding jumping and clears their minds the skaters practice in the streets of sydney twice a week people here have been at the forefront of the fight against ebola the disease has taken the lives of many of the skaters spam the friends rollerblading helps them to escape. for good times are eating i still know a bowl exists but i can forget it i just focus if i think about the disease it distracts me and i might crash 21 year old. started the roller blading team he mentors the children hoping to transform their lives so because you're here when i say i saw the deaths happened i know each other in detail and everywhere all the young people gone because their parents are dead so i tell myself that's why i'm

fighting so hard now as a team is 42 members strong and joel wants to make a difference in the long term. blues on fall victim leader who will often cry able today they're getting rice and flour but will that carry on forever no it will not stop and people need to know the suffering these children are going through your son like google this is a jewel hopes his team will soon compete in races and win trophies but for now it's just about speed and not disease. now south africa is famed for many reasons and it's infamous for its violent crime above all gun violence but despite being beset with gangs joblessness and the lack of basic services teens in the journal of our alexandra are determined to stem that violence by hosting the weekly bigger than life community radio show. the talk of the day a story of how to see and how you can influence time jennifer and bailey is not

just another radio announcer. she produces and co-hosts a radio show on alex diffame with teenagers that talk about gun violence and its effects on the lives xander township which borders so that it is richest square mile sandton is one of the roughest and most violent suburbs of johannesburg with gun violence and something that people in alexandria have to have 10 to normalise which is not a good thing so i us talking about gun violence actually helps make people realize and makes them gain conscious that it's not ok. for someone to be killed with a gun. according to gun free south africa between 18 and 21 people are killed by firearms every day in the country. marianne an activist for the organization trains these young journalists she teaches them how to target gun violence through their reporting and down the line change alexandra. alexandra has

a history of violence and it's you know they get some people call alexandra and that's not something one can be proud of i mean why are we being compared to like. every week jennifer and your peers take to the streets of alexandria and speak to people affected crime in the community these interviews are the same to of the one hour saturday program supported by children's radio foundation and gun free so there. was only killing our society by keeping quiet about certain issues and i was talking about them we are influencing other young people that your voice matters you know i hate saying that we had saying those speaking for the voiceless they're not voiceless they just need a platform and that's what we're doing we're giving them a platform in order to voice the issues since 2014 over 50 young journalists have been involved in the program called bigger than life as they continue to mobilize for gun free zones in their communities the skills they learned today could see

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